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"SHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" she hissed at him angrily, "This baby is NOT yours Ethan," she said through clenched teeth. "you had your chance, we had our children, and even if Eve were to come back and tell me that there was no way Jared could be the father of this baby... he would still always BE the father of this baby, as far as I am concerned and as far as he will ever know" anger flashed in her eyes.
He had seen this anger before; usually it was accompanied by a slap to the face, so he carefully took a step back without making it obvious. But even that step back was too much, just being this close, yet so far away was torture. It was hard enough when he had been married to Gwen, and his conscience had told him that no matter what he had to stay away from Theresa, but now...
"SIGN the papers Ethan... " Theresa said "sign them, and you can have the children overnight next weekend, and I will promise you more overnights with them especially when Jared'sbaby is born" she stressed the word as hard as she could, knowing that he would get the hint, but she also knew that it must be killing him to hear her talk like this. Still, he had made his choice, over and over again, no matter how many times he told her he had loved her he had chosen Gwen. Time and again, he had broken her heart, and now that the roles were reversed, she couldn't understand how he had done it, because just to deny him even a hint of sympathy or an ounce of the affection she was holding back was tearing her apart.
He was silent for a few minutes, thinking about what to say, and about how to say it. Finally he spoke. "Could you really do that? Could you really deny me my child? Could you really deny that child her own father?" he said her easily as he had heard Theresa and Jared talking about their daughter many times. In his heart, he was sure the baby was his, no matter what Theresa said, and he was going to make sure he knew it. "Theresa, I know I was a fool, for so long I was a fool, I didn't listen, didn't want to listen, didn't want to believe all those horrible things about Gwen... "
"But you were willing to believe them about me Ethan... do you know how much that hurt me? to know that no matter how many times I told you the truth, that you didn't trust me... didn't love me enough to believe me?"
"it had nothing to do with Love Theresa, nothing at all... you had," he paused, the word lied sounded so harsh " you had stretched the truth so many times, I didn't know what to believe anymore, and Gwen...I had known her all my life and I didn't want to think that..." he realized that defending Gwen was going to dig himself deeper than just admitting the error of his ways " I was wrong Theresa, I was wrong to be with Gwen, I was wrong to believe Gwen, and I was wrong to believe IN Gwen... I know that now, I know that I was wrong and I wish to god I could fix it, but to deny me my child is wrong too. That child, we created that child out of love, and you weren't breaking any vows, you weren't even married yet..."
"It was the NIGHT before my wedding Ethan!" she said trying desperately to keep her voice down, fearing Jared would hear, and everything she had worked so hard for would be over. "It was wrong, and it is never going to happen again! You don't love me Ethan, you might have thought you did, but you didn't, I was always the second choice, always the afterthought, you had your wife, and you wanted me on the side, and now that she's gone, and you see her for the monster she is, you want me so that you don't have to be alone. But I am NOT alone Ethan! I moved on, I found happiness and I am not going to let you take that away from me, not now not ever!" with that she broke down in tears
Ethan couldn't take it, he couldn't stand to see her cry. He never could. He closed the distance between them in two steps and wrapped his arms around her. She tried to resist at first, but quickly gave up and melted in his embrace. He leaned down and kissed her, and despite all her rantings about how wrong it was... she kissed him back.
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